Steel bridge on roadway bridge(at sole plate)

1.Field of application

Steel bridge on the roadway bridge,Japan.

2.Circumstances of Repair

Fatigue cracks were found in the sole plate welds at the girder support locations in 1990 after 22 years of service.

3.Types of structure

The outline of the bridge structure is as follows.

4.Details of loading

Fluctuating loads due to vehicles live load.

5.Description of damage

The location where the fatigue cracks were found were as follows.

Type-1 crack penetrated the lower flange.

Most of the cracks initiated from the weld in front of the sole plate. Only a few cracks which initiated from the girder web-flange weld are observed. After penetrating through the girder bottom flange, the cracks which initiated from the welds in front of the sole plate had propagated at an angle in the girder web(Fig.2). At the time of discovery, Both the movable supports and the fixed bearings lost the function as supports and the subsidence of the shoe base was also observed.

Cause of fatigue cracks was as follows:

6.Repair method applied

As an emergency repair, temporary support bent was constructed for the cracks which propagated to the girder web.


As a permanent repair, strengthening was as follow (Fig.3,4).


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